Suits filed against VOC and Todd Stave

by Donna Mauney

Conservatives are daily facing new threats to our freedoms and rights. Who is fighting back? A group of pro-lifers recently filed a lawsuit in order to protect their First Amendment rights. A class action lawsuit has been filed in federal and state court this month against Voice of Choice, Inc., its founder, Todd Stave and current director Wendy Robinson.

On the VOC website, Todd Stave and Wendy Robinson urge their followers to identify abortion clinic protestors so they can label them as “bullies” and thereby encourage harassment of these individuals by publishing their personal information.

Who are these so-called “bullies” that are being targeted? Two of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Lisa and Mark Metzger, sidewalk counselors in NC, as mentioned in the press release below…
 
Westminster, Maryland, November 25, 2013  – After sidewalk counselors and prolife advocates across the nation discovered that their photos, and personal addresses, email and phone numbers had been listed on Voice of Choice’s “Bully List”, Attorney Steven Tiedemann of Westminster, Maryland filed three suits on their behalf in Federal and State Court earlier this month. The suits name Voice of Choice, Inc. (VOC), its founder, Todd Stave, and its current director, Wendy Robinson.

Stave began Voice of Choice as his response to activists who picketed his daughter’s “back-to-school” night, and were protesting because Stave is the landlord for the well-known late-term abortion provider, LeRoy Carhart.  In response to those actions and other phone calls from such activists, Stave asked his friends to “fight back” and make calls in a manner that he knew would be unwelcome, annoying and harassing.  Soon, thousands of persons from across the globe participated in this calling campaign.  Stave then founded VOC to expand the harassment campaign to include the harassment of all pro-life advocates. 

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Donna Mauney is a homeschooling mother of eight children, five biological and three adopted. She became involved in politics when she started homeschooling, in order to protect her rights as a parent and freedom to homeschool. Since then she has been active in several campaigns on a grassroots level.